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01. Ash Ra Tempel - Light: Look At Your Sun
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02. Ash Ra Tempel - Darkness: Flowers Must Die
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03. Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen
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ARTIST
ASH RA TEMPEL
TITLE
Schwingungen
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
MG.ART
CATALOG #
MGART 112CD
MGART 112CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
3/22/2024
2024 re-release. CD edition of the 1972 original release, one of the most important German Krautrock albums -- remastered by
Manuel Göttsching
himself.
Julian Cope
´s review in his
Krautrocksampler
book states: "Beware of
Schwingungen
!" That should be the large sticker on the front of all copies of this record. For it is dangerous to be casually introduced to something that is life-changing. It all starts fairly simply and without any cause for alarm ? "Look at Your Sun" begins with a Doorsy lone groover guitar begins a pedestrian blues, beautiful. Then the most crushed voice, a cross between
Johnny Rotten
and
Tiny Tim
, preaches its way into the proceeds. And then the most far out track of all begins. This is called "Flower Must Die" and it is a free-rock giant that transcends everything else in its field (there are no contenders.) After a slow weird build, a frantic streamlined one-chord mantra kicks in and it's like the
Stooges
'
Funhouse
period. The title-track begins poetically enough with
Wolfgang Muller
's epic and hugely reverbed vibraphone. Organ fades in and FX guitars, and time passes by. Finally, tom-toms roll and the developing pace is built upon until that great eternal chord sequence finally materializes -- this is the one that Göttsching and Enke believed was the sound of heaven. They may have been right. And
Schwingungen
was a gift from the Gods.
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